Other tidbits

We GSoC aProject administrators can review the student's final evaluation by going to the midterm review url and change "midterm" to "final"

Leslie and her boss, did admit that projects that have Google employee's do get preference, but typically only if its about to be dropped because, it has performed well (not doing eval, failing students that have not performed, etc.) In these cases, if the Googler is willing to take the heat and the project is really serving a purpose then it may get preferential treatment and be allowed to stay in the program.

They feel that the program has as many slots as they can afford at the moment, so some projects may get dropped, for no other reason than to make room for a different project.

There is a another program GHOP which is run at the high school level. It was mentioned in passing but I think that it has to do with getting high school students involved on O/S projects by paying them to documentation. It might be worth looking into for G3 documentation.